Senior Project Manager

Overview

LMI is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program focused on suicide prevention and mental health. This role will lead technical projects and workstreams across a multidisciplinary program involving digital solutions, Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, analytics, data, and program evaluation.

The successful candidate will serve as the primary owner for assigned projects—translating client needs into actionable technical requirements, coordinating delivery teams, managing scope and priorities, and ensuring solutions are delivered successfully. This individual should be comfortable working directly with developers, analysts, data scientists, evaluators, and business stakeholders and have enough technical fluency to understand dependencies, challenge assumptions, identify risks, and drive decisions.

This role is well suited for a strong project leader who wants to deepen their technical delivery experience while developing toward broader program management responsibilities. Prior VA experience is a significant plus.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.
Responsibilities

- Own the planning, execution, and delivery of assigned technical projects and workstreams from requirements through implementation.

- Serve as the primary point of coordination between VA stakeholders, program leadership, and technical delivery teams.

- Translate ambiguous or evolving client needs into clear technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, delivery plans, and priorities.

- Lead delivery using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid Agile approaches, including backlog management, sprint planning, prioritization, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency management.

- Manage work in Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, and related delivery tools, maintaining clear visibility into status, risks, blockers, dependencies, and decisions.

- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include Power Platform developers, SharePoint developers, software developers, data scientists, analysts, evaluators, and subject matter experts.

- Partner with technical leads to understand solution approaches, architecture, data dependencies, integration points, security considerations, and implementation risks.

- Drive technical delivery by identifying blockers, resolving cross-team dependencies, escalating issues when appropriate, and ensuring teams remain focused on defined outcomes.

- Manage project scope, schedule, resources, milestones, and performance while proactively addressing risks and changing priorities.

- Lead requirements-gathering sessions, technical discussions, demonstrations, client reviews, and project status meetings.

- Develop and maintain project documentation, roadmaps, delivery plans, decision logs, dashboards, and client-facing briefings.

- Ensure technical deliverables meet client requirements, acceptance criteria, quality expectations, and applicable VA standards.

- Support projects involving Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint modernization, workflow automation, analytics, data visualization, and program evaluation.

- Partner with analysts and evaluators to ensure technical solutions effectively support program measurement, operational decision-making, a